sound · edge ai · ip

Twenty years engineering audio for the edge. Dolby Atmos. Smart earphones. On-device speech.

Low-latency, low-power audio algorithms — classical DSP and modern ML — running where the silicon is small and the milliwatt budget is smaller. Principal inventor on patents shipped in billions of earphones.

now: lead sound engineer @ mimi.io  ·  50+ patents  ·  plotting what's next
recent selected work · 2024 → today
ARP8 — browser MIDI arpeggiator UI

ARP8 — acoustic arpeggiator

2026 · web midi · javascript

A browser MIDI arpeggiator for Korg Berlin's phase8 — the eight-voice acoustic synthesizer with steel resonators. Twenty-eight hand-authored generative compositions (Bach, Reich, Eno, Pärt, Cage, Satie…), each a different musical territory using one engine. Runs in Chrome over Web MIDI — no installer, no DAW.

Carbon-fibre active loudspeaker

Nautic Audio — carbon-fibre active loudspeaker

w/ Amon Tobin

Co-founded loudspeaker company. Engineered an all-carbon-fibre active tower with a novel waveguide aimed at the listening seat to suppress room coloration. Voiced in collaboration with composer / producer Amon Tobin.

light-chat

go · whisper · gpt · arduino

Speak a wish at a Raspberry Pi → Whisper transcribes → GPT writes a fresh Arduino sketch → the lights reprogram themselves. Conversational firmware, end-to-end.

ardpifi

go · pi · arduino · ad-hoc wifi

Programmable LED controller running across an ad-hoc Wi-Fi mesh of Pi + Arduino nodes. No router, no cloud — just peers.

Spatial pickup & beamforming

video · archive

An older demo of microphone-array beamforming — picking out a single voice in a noisy room without losing the room.

Node — sci-fi novella

prose · 2024

Long-form fiction. Audio engineers do other things too.

track record where the work has shipped
now Mimi Hearing Technologies — leading sound engineering. Edge-AI voice clarity and personalised hearing on open-ear devices: on-device, low-latency (~4 ms), no cloud. Recent contributor to "hearables with sound bubble" in Nature Electronics.
2018→ Audio group at Synaptics — next-generation telecoms DSP & ML for speech enhancement.
2014→ Co-founder, Nautic Audio — carbon-fibre active loudspeaker, voiced with Amon Tobin.
2006→16 Personics / Techiya — principal inventor on what was, arguably, the world's first smart consumer earphone: hearing enhancement, AR, hearing protection, voice comms. Patents now shipped in billions of earphones.
2004→06 IMM Sound → Dolby — co-developed the loudspeaker upmix algorithm now part of Dolby Atmos (US 8,335,330). Small, Oscar-winning technical team.
earlier Acoustics @ Bang & Olufsen · audio DSP @ Philips Nat Lab. Talks at Google-X, NASA, Cambridge, McGill. B.Eng. Salford · Ph.D. McGill — advised by Martens, Woszczyk, Benesty & Bregman.
capabilities what i ship
edge-ai audio low-latency dsp smart earphone design speech enhancement noise reduction · de-reverb ANC · AEC · beamforming spatial audio & upmixing transparency / passthrough psychoacoustics & MOS dosimetry RNN · CNN · U-Net (PyTorch · TF · ONNX) MATLAB · C · Python · Go · asm patent strategy · expert witness
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